| A Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story Contributor(s): Gallimore, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1856355365 ISBN-13: 9781856355360 Publisher: Mercier Press OUR PRICE: $21.94 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Boxing - History | Europe - Ireland |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007405505 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 8.3" (0.85 lbs) 362 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The most bizarre world championship fight in boxing history was staged on St. Patrick's Day 1923, in war-torn Dublin. The winner in the ring, Mike McTigue, went on to run with gunmen, gangsters and racketeers in Jazz Age New York. A Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story tells the story of how Michael Francis McTigue left Kilnamona, Co. Clare, to seek fame and fortune in the United States, only for circumstances to bring him back to Dublin where he would win one of the strangest world title fights in boxing history. Set partly against the background of the Irish Civil War, it also tells of a bitterly divided people who managed to set aside their differences for twenty rounds of boxing before the guns started firing and the mines started exploding once more. But primarily, A Bloody Canvas is a biography. It tells how an ageing journeyman fighter found himself to be the right Irishman, in the right place at the right time. This is the saga of an underdog boxer laced with wrenching danger and a panoramic sense of life from late eighteenth-century rural Ireland to the Civil War, to the heady days of the Jazz Age in New York and the desperation of the Great Depression. |